▸ 01 · STAFF PICK · CB
KAIROS
JENNY ERPENBECK · tr. M. Hofmann
East-Berlin love story across the wall's fall. Booker International, 2024. Hand-sold by Christoph.
€24HARDCOVER
KIOSK 04
JOIN · €40 / YR
OPEN12.40SAT 23.05
STOCK11,840VOLUMES
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STAFF05HUMANS PRESENT
KIOSK 04
BERLIN MITTE
EST. 2014
ROSENTHALER STR. 47
BOOKS
FROM
concrete.
A bookstore in a corner of Berlin Mitte. Twelve thousand books on metal shelves bolted to concrete walls. We sell what we have read; we read what we sell; the rest we send back to the publisher.
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▸ EVENT TONIGHT ◂ JENNY ERPENBECK · 20.00 H · LIVE AT KIOSK 04 ◂ FREE FOR MEMBERS ◂ €12 AT THE DOOR ◂ THIS WEEK: 34 NEW BOOKS ◂ FREE SHIPPING IN BERLIN ◂
▸ EVENT TONIGHT ◂ JENNY ERPENBECK · 20.00 H · LIVE AT KIOSK 04 ◂ FREE FOR MEMBERS ◂ €12 AT THE DOOR ◂ THIS WEEK: 34 NEW BOOKS ◂ FREE SHIPPING IN BERLIN ◂
§ I
THE shelves.
01 · FICTION
4,228vol. · 2 walls
02 · ESSAY
2,116vol. · 1 wall
03 · POETRY
982vol. · the gallery
04 · ARCHITECTURE
1,464vol. · the basement
05 · ART
1,820vol. · the basement
06 · DEUTSCH
1,230vol. · vorne links
§ II
THIS week.
▸ 02 · NEW
SOLENOID
MIRCEA CĂRTĂRESCU · tr. S. Cotter
A 700-page Bucharest dream-novel. A monster, in the best Romanian sense.
€32HC
▸ 03 · ESSAY
THE ARGONAUTS
MAGGIE NELSON · essay / memoir
Family, theory, body, prose. Still selling, ten years on. We keep ten copies.
€18PB
▸ 04 · ARCHITECTURE
ALISON & PETER SMITHSON
DIRK VAN DEN HEUVEL · 1973 reissue
The original brutalist primer. Hard to find, harder to read, worth every Mark.
€68HC
▸ 05 · POETRY
FIELD NOTES
ADRIENNE RICH · posth. coll.
Late and previously uncollected poems. Norton, 2025. Slim, blue, painful.
€22HC
▸ 06 · FICTION · DE
DAS PROVISORIUM
CHRISTOPH HEIN · auf deutsch
A 1990s Berlin novel only now translated everywhere else. We sell the German.
€26TB
▸ 07 · ESSAY
ON PHOTOGRAPHY
SUSAN SONTAG · 1977, still
"The camera is a kind of passport that annihilates moral boundaries." We have eight.
€14PB
▸ 08 · ART
BAUHAUS 100
VARIOUS · cat. raisonné
The full Bauhaus output, finally. Heavy, expensive, beautiful.
€84HC · 600pp
§ III
events · live.
23 · 05
SAT · 20H
JENNY ERPENBECK · live↳ in conversation with Christoph Heuer, on KAIROS
€12FREE / MEMBERS
RESERVE
27 · 05
WED · 19H
POETRY NIGHT · open mic↳ 12 readers · 5 min each · the gallery
FREEWALK-IN
RSVP
30 · 05
SAT · 18H
BRUTALISM · A WALK↳ guided walk through Mitte's concrete · Hans Renner
€18BOOK AHEAD
BOOK
04 · 06
WED · 20H
MIRCEA CĂRTĂRESCU · solo↳ reading from SOLENOID · english translation by Sean Cotter
€14FREE / MEMBERS
RESERVE
12 · 06
THU · 19H
CHILDREN'S PARTY · 10 YR↳ a small party · cake · readings · we keep it tight
FREERSVP REQUIRED
RSVP
18 · 06
SAT · 19H
EVA MENASSE · auf deutsch↳ on her new novel · in conversation w/ M. Schreyer
€14FREE / MEMBERS
RESERVE
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